On
Thursday October 9th 2015, the Embassy of Tanzania in Washington DC
hosted a reception of guests, sponsored by Oxfam, to highlight their Female
Food Hero initiative. Ms. Bahati Muriga was a guest speaker who spoke concerning
her work as a farmer, also known for winning the Swahili reality television
series “Mama Shujaa wa Chakula”. Ms. Muriga lives in the Mwanza region of northern
Tanzania and shorty after becoming a widow she began to look for ways to
support her two children while working as head of a primary school she
continued to take on more of her husband’s farming. The extra income from her
farming activities enabled her to provide education for her children and take
care of many other family needs.

The
Embassy of Tanzania hosted the event for the Female Food Hero who came to DC
from Tanzania. The Oxfam event comes in advance of World Food Day (October
16th) and is part of Oxfam America’s overall activities around World Food Day
which includes high level presence in Iowa at the World Food Prize where our
Female Food Hero will be a featured speaker/guest at several events.Ms. Muriga will also travel to Des Moines,
Iowa to take part in World Food Prize events.